We put a hand over our heart, Nike puts thumb in our eye [View all]

[TexasTowelie]

Note: This is a conservative editorial by Michael Shannon from the Great Bend (Kansas) Tribune regarding the Colin Kaepernick/Nike marketing campaign. There is a whole lot of stupid in this editorial and for additional irony the author is a public relations consultant. Please amuse yourself with an editorial full of right-wing talking points that should be thoroughly ridiculed.


Failed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick continues to stay culturally relevant by depending on the kindness of strangers. If it weren’t for white folks, beginning with his foster parents, Kaepernick might just be another player who peaked early and disappeared.

The first white person who bailed him out was - of all people - President Donald Trump. Colin began his ‘take a knee, look at me’ protest with an example of bad timing that should have rendered him a joke from the beginning. He protested black “injustice” during Barack Obama’s second term.

Now I won’t deny there are still jerks {Mr. Shannon should check his mirror first} who like nothing better than disparaging black folks while burning a cross in their backyard fire pit. Still, it’s a pretty ramshackle variety of “institutional racism and oppression” that lets a black guy slip through the net and become president.

Cognitive dissonance has never been a feature of the Opposition Media, so the contradictions of Kaepernick’s genuflection were ignored. Colin’s problem was the public was starting to ignore him.

Read more: https://www.gbtribune.com/opinion/we-put-hand-over-our-heart-nike-puts-thumb-our-eye/